Sunday, July 09, 2017

FOGTB Dave Fairbank has a lot of time on his hands, apparently, what with the beachside living and all. He sent me the following DM via Twitter a few days ago:

"I'm late to this, but you must find John Oliver's show from last Sunday (big chunk is on Sinclair Broadcast Group), but the kicker is at the end. A fabricated movie about the life of Warren Harding - takes too long to explain, just trust me on this - that includes one of your faves."

The show in question is Episode 107 of Last Week Tonight, Oliver's increasingly must-watch HBO commentary. And the Sinclair stuff is indeed worth watching, if you can carve 19 minutes from your busy schedules of kid-wrangling, imbibing, commuting, and fallout shelter digging. (I've included it at the end of this post for your rage-viewing pleasure.)

But the Fairbank-described kicker is in the eight-minute piece below, which really defies easy explanation. Let me just say that I've never been turned on by a scene featuring a wax president before.

I taught zson to tie his shoes today, thus crossing off one of my goals for him to accomplish this summer. Also on the list is learning how to: ride a bike; swim two lengths of the pool; more effectively wipe his butt; and roll a joint. We shall see how far we get.

Big U7 Summer travel team win for my squad tonight - a 13-12 victory when our #8 hitter laced a single with 2 on and 2 outs. The kid was mobbed by teammates and was ecstatic. He'll remember that for many years.

And we beat one of the other travel teams in my town. Huge bragging rights for this guy. Now we get to go to Bridgewater and get our asses handed to us on Thursday.